"A fresh lens for viewing Jacob Lawrence's art: through the
perspective of teens of color. . . . An invaluable resource
amplifying marginalized teen voices and conveying Lawrence's
relevance to their own lives." -Kirkus Reviews In the mid-1950s, as
Brown v. Board of Education felled the ideology of "separate but
equal," the great African-American artist Jacob Lawrence saw the
need for a version of American history that reckoned with its
complexities and contradictions yet was shared by all its citizens.
The result was his monumental work Struggle . . . from the History
of the American People. Lawrence, the best known black American
artist of the 20th century, developed the series of thirty panels,
each measuring 12 x 16 inches, over the course of two years.
Lawrence created the panels as history you could hold in your hands
and intended to reproduce the images in a book that he never
realized. The paintings depict signal moments in the American
Revolution and the early decades of the American republic, and
feature the words and actions of founding fathers, enslaved people,
women, and Native Americans. In January 2020, the Peabody Essex
Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, is mounting the landmark
exhibition, Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle. The show, which
unites the panels in one place for the first time in nearly half a
century, then travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, the Seattle Art
Museum, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., on a
two-year national tour. In the spirit of Lawrence's project, this
collection includes brief interpretive texts written by teens in
response to the Struggle series. This illustrated book features a
chorus of thirty singular young adult voices expressing how
Lawrence and his Struggle series speaks to them on a personal,
emotional level. The young writers come from a broad variety of
races and ethnicities, nationalities, religions, genders,
sexualities, and abilities, and underrepresented voices. As Jacob
Lawrence mined American history to reflect upon events he saw
happening around him in segregation-era America, these young adults
use these panels to comment on their experiences in today's
America.
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